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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Make Lost Connection Errors Recoverable

Currently, when CDC replication fails on Target side due to Connection Reset (possibly due to a firewall issue) the error is marked non-recoverable. This causes a replication outage that requires manual restart of the affected subscriptions. To av...
37 minutes ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Big Query connector uses legacy API by default which is adding 90 minutes of wait time for the streaming buffer to be flushed for DML operations to be performed. We need functionality in BQ connector to be able to use Storage write API to avoid this wait time

If a BQ job abends for some reason due to connectivity issue etc, the application team has to wait for 90 min to restart the job 2nd time. if this issue occurs in critical flow, it is causing SLA miss which is causing business impact
about 6 hours ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Enhanced recovery performance improvement

We encountered significant recovery performance issues (recovery time increasing exponentially as the number of objects rises) and the analysis in a Case showed that this was due to enhanced recovery’s non target index serialization (our backups a...
about 10 hours ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Submitted

Detect connection status to data source

On several occasions the following scenario has occurred:Lost connection at the origin, however, the subscription remains in the "Mirroring continuous" state, but it is not actually replicating anything, since when validating at the database level...
about 23 hours ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add Support for newer Ubuntu Releases

Only Ubuntu 18.04 is a supported Operating System for SPSS Modeler Server 18.4.But Ubuntu 18.04 is End Of Life since 31 May 2023. (https://ubuntu.com/blog/18-04-end-of-standard-support)Please add support for newer Ubuntu releases (20.04, 22.04, 24...
1 day ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Server 0 Submitted

Running process from PLAN submit button

The submit button could have a feature that once submitted it would also allow run TI processes just like any other button in Applications. Current workaround is that I have to have a separate submit button, which triggers a set of actions which n...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

QMF for Workstation Build 20231206 - add a bind status message after executing bind.bat file

When performing a bind (bind.bat) using the Export Update Script feature in QMF for Workstation v13.1.1.0 Interim 1 Build 20231206 - during the bind process, it would be helpful to receive a message stating that the bind completed successfully and...
2 days ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Submitted

Certify Informix 14.10 on red-hat 7

Our version of Informix will expire before our extended contract for red-hat 7, so we would like to upgrade the database in place to 14.10 from 12.10.fc13. Can you certify that? And give us a download for 14.10 that will not fail if we load it to ...
2 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Read SQL from file in Teradata Connector Stage

Teradata Connector in CP4D does not have an option to read an SQL from File. Currently tenants are using different stages like Execution command and user variable in the sequencer to dynamically pass the SQL reading it from the file, we need an op...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

better control while removing parameters

TS013848268 fix allows to remove multiple parameters. It is easy to make the mistake while selecting multiple variables across multiple pages. Request to have at least a confirmation list of the parameters which are going to be removed before comm...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted